Anyone Tennessee senior citizen using The Community Programs Division (CPD) of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (THDA) should be aware of the underhanded tactics of the CPD, especially when the Emergency Repair Program (ERP) is administrated by the development districts of Tennessee.
One such district, the Northwest Tennessee Development District (NWTDD), in connivance with THDA intimidates elderly Tennessee citizens with threats of violence and other coercive methods if these elderly citizens do not adhere completely to these two organizations demands when the elderly citizens request the ERP program services.
The elderly and impoverished Tennessee citizens that are supposed to benefit the most from the ERP program take a distant back seat to the benefits to the slipshod inspectors and contractors along with the employees of some, if not all, of the nine Tennessee development districts. Some, if not all, of the contractors and inspectors couldn’t care less about what the senior citizens suggest about the reparations to their homes. And if, for example, NWTDD is told about this unconcern, they shed off all responsibility by saying that the inspectors and contractors do not work for them, when indeed it is the NWTDD (and all other Tennessee development districts) who pay the inspectors for their “work.”
The CPD is a “firewall” between the development districts and the rest of Tennessee’s citizenry in that the CPD insulates the development districts from the revelation of the districts’ transgressions by claiming that they are “supervising” the districts, when, in fact, they will do anything they can to hide how the districts mismanage the ERP program, much like kingpin gangsters isolate their underling thugs.
Don’t expect THDA to uphold their supposed rules of inspection and oversight of the districts either. Telling the THDA about any infractions of the districts will result in THDA handing off the problem to their Internal Affairs division, which has exactly zero reason to ruffle any feathers in THDA or within the districts, and especially in the NWTDD.
Don’t expect the districts to adhere to any open records laws. If you require any information that is supposed to be available under the Tennessee Open Records Act the, for example, NWTDD will first claim that the records are not public. Then when that lie is exposed, they will conspire with the THDA in order for the THDA to say that the THDA will make the records available. Then, after months of procrastination, the THDA will make excuses in order to hide the public records (which undoubtedly are besmirching to the reputations of both the THDA and the NWTDD) for good from the Tennessee citizen who is requesting them.
And don’t expect the Open Records Counsel of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury to do anything about retrieving the public records from THDA and/or the NWTDD like they are supposed to. The Open Records Counsel staff are so chummy with the THDA that they will give the THDA a “wink and a nod” and just be complicit with the THDA’s connivance with the NWTDD’s obfuscation of the records.
If you are an elderly and impoverished Tennessee citizen that plans on receiving repairs to your home through the ERP program realize that you are dealing with slick-talking con men at all levels of these government agencies. Be prepared to have most of the money that should be spent on your reparations ending up in the hands of all the “players” involved in this deceitful racket. And also be prepared for the contractors to “walk all over you” like they would on your welcome mats because they have no reason to be polite to you because they know that you are not paying them and that what you say means practically nothing. And if you dispute anything with the contractors, be prepared for the contractors to become bullies toward you.
One such district, the Northwest Tennessee Development District (NWTDD), in connivance with THDA intimidates elderly Tennessee citizens with threats of violence and other coercive methods if these elderly citizens do not adhere completely to these two organizations demands when the elderly citizens request the ERP program services.
The elderly and impoverished Tennessee citizens that are supposed to benefit the most from the ERP program take a distant back seat to the benefits to the slipshod inspectors and contractors along with the employees of some, if not all, of the nine Tennessee development districts. Some, if not all, of the contractors and inspectors couldn’t care less about what the senior citizens suggest about the reparations to their homes. And if, for example, NWTDD is told about this unconcern, they shed off all responsibility by saying that the inspectors and contractors do not work for them, when indeed it is the NWTDD (and all other Tennessee development districts) who pay the inspectors for their “work.”
The CPD is a “firewall” between the development districts and the rest of Tennessee’s citizenry in that the CPD insulates the development districts from the revelation of the districts’ transgressions by claiming that they are “supervising” the districts, when, in fact, they will do anything they can to hide how the districts mismanage the ERP program, much like kingpin gangsters isolate their underling thugs.
Don’t expect THDA to uphold their supposed rules of inspection and oversight of the districts either. Telling the THDA about any infractions of the districts will result in THDA handing off the problem to their Internal Affairs division, which has exactly zero reason to ruffle any feathers in THDA or within the districts, and especially in the NWTDD.
Don’t expect the districts to adhere to any open records laws. If you require any information that is supposed to be available under the Tennessee Open Records Act the, for example, NWTDD will first claim that the records are not public. Then when that lie is exposed, they will conspire with the THDA in order for the THDA to say that the THDA will make the records available. Then, after months of procrastination, the THDA will make excuses in order to hide the public records (which undoubtedly are besmirching to the reputations of both the THDA and the NWTDD) for good from the Tennessee citizen who is requesting them.
And don’t expect the Open Records Counsel of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury to do anything about retrieving the public records from THDA and/or the NWTDD like they are supposed to. The Open Records Counsel staff are so chummy with the THDA that they will give the THDA a “wink and a nod” and just be complicit with the THDA’s connivance with the NWTDD’s obfuscation of the records.
If you are an elderly and impoverished Tennessee citizen that plans on receiving repairs to your home through the ERP program realize that you are dealing with slick-talking con men at all levels of these government agencies. Be prepared to have most of the money that should be spent on your reparations ending up in the hands of all the “players” involved in this deceitful racket. And also be prepared for the contractors to “walk all over you” like they would on your welcome mats because they have no reason to be polite to you because they know that you are not paying them and that what you say means practically nothing. And if you dispute anything with the contractors, be prepared for the contractors to become bullies toward you.
